Published by Daniel Mosquin on December 31, 2005
A “seasonal” image to complete 2005: candystick or sugarstick, with its red and white stem striping, obviously deserves its common names. The photographs lack visual cues (other than the moss) to give perspective, so I’ll mention that this particular plant measured roughly fifty centimeters (nearly two feet) high. Photographed in early July of 2004, this […]
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on December 30, 2005
Known simply as lantana, or shrub verbena, Lantana camara is a species whose native distribution is not easy to determine; I’ve looked through ten different web sites for native distribution and came up with nothing definitive.
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on December 29, 2005
Black spruce or, less commonly, swamp spruce is distributed in every province and territory of Canada, the northeastern United States and France (okay, not France proper, but the islands of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon). However, this image was taken in Kyloe Wood, Northumberland, England, where a population of the plants has naturalised. While growing up in […]
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on December 28, 2005
Scaphosepalum antenniferum is native to northwestern South America, i.e., Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia. Its plant family, the Orchidaceae, contains over eight hundred described genera and roughly twenty-five thousand species.
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on December 27, 2005
Today’s photographer, Maureen, has written a short piece accompanying the photograph, which I hope is alright to share here. She writes:
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on December 26, 2005
(2018 edit: Occasionally, we discover that a plant that we thought had been identified correctly gets a closer look and we discover not everything is quite right. That’s the scenario here. Since this entry was written in 2005, we’re now uncertain about the identity of this fern–so it is now determined as something that is […]
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on December 25, 2005
In late afternoon winter sun with its heavy orange-yellow cast, ‘Blue Ice’ Arizona cypress doesn’t necessarily resemble its name. At other times, this cultivar is known for being particularly silvery-blue within a highly variable species.
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